Upgrade Django

Django 1.8.x

Support ended 2018-04-01

This series of Django releases was supported from 2015-04-01 to 2018-04-01.

Release Highlights

  • Django 1.8 was a long-term support release. Extended support ended on 2018-04-01.
  • Pluggable support for different template engines. You can now for example use Jinja2 instead of just Django Templates.
  • New contrib.postgres package for deeper and tighter integration with PostgreSQL
  • New SecurityMiddleware
  • Added UUIDField in the ORM

Upgrade Gotchas

  • Creating a ModelForm without either the ‘fields’ attribute or the ’exclude’ attribute is prohibited
  • Security patches

  • Bug fixes

  • Release

  • Alpha

  • Beta

Released Versions

Version Release Date Release Type Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.19 2018-03-06
SECURITY
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.18 2017-04-04
SECURITY
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.17 2016-12-01
BUGFIX
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.16 2016-11-01
SECURITY
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.15 2016-09-26
SECURITY
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.14 2016-07-18
SECURITY
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.13 2016-05-02
BUGFIX
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.12 2016-04-01
BUGFIX
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.11 2016-03-05
BUGFIX
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.10 2016-03-01
SECURITY
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.9 2016-02-01
SECURITY
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.8 2016-01-02
BUGFIX
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.7 2015-11-24
SECURITY
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.6 2015-11-04
BUGFIX
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.5 2015-10-03
BUGFIX
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.4 2015-08-18
SECURITY
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.3 2015-07-08
SECURITY
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.2 2015-05-20
SECURITY
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8.1 2015-05-01
BUGFIX
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8 2015-04-01
RELEASE
Blog Post Release Notes GitHub
1.8c1 2015-03-18
RC
GitHub
1.8b2 2015-03-09
BETA
GitHub
1.8b1 2015-02-25
BETA
GitHub
1.8a1 2015-01-16
ALPHA
GitHub

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